Roads to Canberra the Duke’s Visit
One happy outcome of the pending visit of the Duke of York to Canberra will be the improvement of the highways leading to the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1927
301 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 16
Toll of the Motor
New Year's Day motor smashes were responsible for a remarkable list of injured in or near Sydney. Four persons bad miraculous…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shire Roads Work for Last Year
The Shire Clerk, Mr. P. B. Taylor, has prepared all his statements for last year, and is therefore in a position to give details of the expenditure…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Toll of the Motor
R. G. ("Phil" Garlick, 44, the noted racing car driver, met a frightful death while travelling at 93 miles an hour at Maroubra Speedway on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drunken Motor Drivers
The alarming frequency of fatal and other accidents as the Result of the motor car invasion has become a serious problem. That most of these are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Aeroplane Service From Cootamundra to Canberra
An effort is being made to establish a weekly aeroplane passenger service between Cootamundra and Canberra. Yesterday morning at 9.30 the “Bell…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Notes Types of Design in 1927
Those motorists who will be in Sydney in mid-January will have an excellent opportunity of viewing one of the most representative displays of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Federal Roads Grant
It is understood that the New South Wales Government is about to enter into the general arrangement between the States and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Proposed New Main Road to Canberra
The Minister for Labor and Industry wrote to the Gunning Shire Council at its last meeting concerning the representations made by Mr. Tully,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Motor Ordinance at F. C. T.
There will come into force in the Federal Capital Territory on 1st of February next the Motor Traffic Ordinance gazetted last December. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Federal Roads Grant
It is understood that the New South Wales Government Is about to enter into the general arrangement between the States and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shire Roads Engineer's Report
At Thursday's meeting of the Shire Council the engineer, Mr. Lawson, reported as follows:— "Main Roads—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Expenditure Estimates for 1927
The Shire engineer has submitted, and the Council has adopted, amended estimates for the expenditure of £4000 of the Council's funds on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Racing in Goulburn Sensational Accident
There was a sensational ending to the third heat of the Grand Prix at the Goulburn speed races on the racecourse on Saturday afternoon laet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Accident
There was a crash in Auburn-street, Goulburn, on Saturday afternoon. A motor lorry belonging to the Argyle Dairy Company was turning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Notes Cleaning Petrol. Pipes
The two recognised ways of cleaning petrol pipes, viz: blowing through them and pushing a clean piece of wire through the hole are quite satisfactory…
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In the Assembly on Tuesday Mr. Bate asked the Premier whether, as many Shire and Municipal Councils were not preparing their programmes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Repairing Road to Canberra
The Minister for Main Roads, Mr. Badderley, and members of the main Roads Board are inspecting the route to Canberra to decode what further…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Danger Signals for Motorists
The East Queanbeyan Progress Association amongst other matters suggested to the Council the necessity for [?]nstalling a red light at the intersec…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Facts and Fancies. Flies Faster Than An Aeroplane
There are several species of birds that can travel much faster than any aeroplane yet invented. The fastest of them is called the “frigate bird,”…
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